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Building a Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection

Currently on view at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is Building a Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection curated by Dan Nadel. The exhibition features works by 40 artists including Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Robert Hudson, Peter Saul, William T. Wiley, among others, that address the world by offering generative visions of transformation and repair through social, physical, and ceremonial relationships.

Joan Brown at MOCA Los Angeles

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

Joan Brown is included in the exhibition One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. This group exhibition is inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962).

Joan Brown acquired by Minneapolis Institute of Art

Portrait of a Girl, 1971

Joan Brown's 1971 painting Portrait of a Girl has been acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The work will be included in the upcoming exhibition New to Mia: Paintings of All Shapes and Sizes!, highlighting new aquisitions at Mia by modern and contemporary artists across genres and cultures.

Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown at SFMoMA

Wayne Thiebaud: Artist's Choice

Works by Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown are included in the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Artist's Choice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For this exhibition, Thiebaud delved deep into the museum’s storage vault. His choices include both old friends and new discoveries by European Modernists.

Robert Arneson and Joan Brown at University of New Mexico Art Museum

HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection

Robert Arneson and Joan brown are included in HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. This exhibition highlights over 50 artworks acquired since the museum was founded in 1962. Focus is primarily on international art movements of the 1960s and 70s including Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and California Funk.

Joan Brown at the University of California, Irvine

First Glimpse: Introducing the Buck Collection

Joan Brown is included in an exhibition at the University Art Gallery at UCI. First Glimpse: Introducing the Buck Collection will offer a preview of the Gerald Buck Collection, acquired in 2013, in anticipation of the construction of UCI Institute and Museum for California Art.

The current exhibition, ‘Way Bay,’ at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) puts together an exposition of diverse works of Bay Area art, film and poetry spanning 200 years of creativity. Works by Enrique Chagoya, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff and David Park are included in the exhibition, among many of their contemporaries.

Joan Brown reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

Our exhibition of painting by Joan Brown is reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail. Writer David Carrier notes "Brown’s absolute mastery of the medium of painting" and identifies her minimalist tendacies as part of the tradition of modernist painting, which (quoting Baudelaire), “fills you with a pleasure which is absolutely divorced from its subject.”

Joan Brown a Critic's Pick in Artforum

Joan Brown at the Richmond Art Center

Joan Brown: In Living Color is on view from September 12 - November 11 at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California. The exhibition contains works on paper showcasing Brown's bold style that breaks the formalism in upholding narrative.

'Over the Golden Gate: 1960-1990' at Tajan, Paris

As part of the Tajan ARTSTUDIO program, a series of special exhibitions held at L'Espace Tajan, Paris, is a special exhibition focusing on artists of the Bay Area, from 1960-1990. Including the work of Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Mark di Suvero, Wayne Thiebaud and William T Wiley, it is the first exhibition of its scope and focus to be presented in Paris. A catalog with essay by Hilarie Faberman has been published for the occasion.

To see the catalog, or for more information about the exhibition, please follow the link below.

Joan Brown on Hyperallergic

In memory of Joan Brown, 1938-1990

Brown died twenty-five years ago this month, leaving behind a substantial body of work, yet the trajectory of her art and art making, as well as her role in the Bay Area scene, is under-recognized. Solo exhibitions of her paintings are infrequent, and large-scale shows on the East Coast are unheard of. A small survey at George Adams Gallery in New York last spring, Joan Brown: Major Paintings from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, gave shape to Brown’s enthusiastic reception of Bischoff’s example, showing how she searched her immediate environment for things to paint.

Joan Brown reviewed by Rino Horn Artists Blog

Two Great Figurative Expressionists on View

Two seminal Figurative Expressionists have concurrent exhibitions in two continents. An exhibition of many seminal large canvases by Leon Golub entitled Bite Your Tongue is currently at Serpentine Galleries in London, and Joan Brown’s Selected Major Paintings and Sculptures 1957-1975 is up at George Adams Gallery in New York City.

Peter Plagens for The Wall Street Journal

Joan Brown: Major Paintings From the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

Joan Brown (1938-1990) was a prodigy in the “Bay Area Figurative style,” and “Portrait of a Chair” (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell-for-leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

Joan Brown at Vassar College

XL: Large-Scale Paintings From the Permanent Collection

Joan Brown is included in XL: Large-Scale Paintings From the Permanent Collection at the Frances Leman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. The show consists of large scale paintings - those that measure over 6 feet - which because of their size are rarely exhibited. The show was reviewed in the New York Times, and continues in the vein of the 1947 MoMA show "Large-Scale Modern Painting" . The show runs from March 19th to March 29th, More information can be found here.